wounded soldiers.

I have two sons in the army, she thought; what if they were weary and
wounded like these?
Then she speaks to the comrades in battle, and learning where they were
going, insisted on their taking her carriage. She will have no refusal:
and now John the footman, inwardly groaning, assists the lame man to
enter, then the other one takes a seat...
Off they whirl to their hospital-home, with a blessing upon the fair lady
who dared follow the teachings of ONE whom that morning she worshiped
with words ... and with deeds.

Open your hands--and your hearts--ye who stand afar off from the battle!
Lo! the wounded and dying are here at your doors.
Slumber no more; but awake, AWAKE TO THEIR CRIES!

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ASTOR AND THE CAPITALISTS OF NEW-YORK.

The accumulation of wealth has always been a chief proclivity of our
race. The earliest of all books (Job) mentions it with sharp reproof, as
though even then it had become a theme with the moralist. In olden time,
wealth was even more unreliable than at the present day, especially as
the mere possession of gold was enough to endanger one's life. The
modern capitalist avoids this by devolving the custody of his cash on
some bank and holding its stock instead of a hoard of ingots. The
science of wealth now takes a more philosophic turn, and may be summed
up in one word, _debt_. To be rich is simply to have brought the
community in debt to yourself; and the greater it is, the greater, of
course, your riches. To be poor is simply to reverse this condition, and
to be in debt to others. The richest of all mankind may not have on
hand, in specie, at any one time, more than the amount of a single day's
income, and may be only able to show for his entire capital sundry
pieces of paper, representing value. This is a vast improvement upon
antiquity, since then wealth was identified with the holding of bullion,
for whose protection an especial deity was invented. By a strange
coicidence, while Pluto was god of the lower regions, a slight change of
the name represented his moneyed colleague, and Plutus presided over
money. This connection is with sober wit hit off by Milton, who sets the
fallen angels at once to